RIP 2022 q2

/youtube convoy

@mike808 I thought I was the only one who cranked up black bear road/Silverton/convoy/wolf creek pass

And especially classified

@mike808 Aw, is that why I heard Convoy on MeTV fm this morning?

@mike808 Eleven long-haired friends of Jesus and a Chartreuse microbus!
/giphy chartreuse microbus

@lisagd My condolences.

@lisagd

@katbyter

When I was in high school, we sophisticated but inexperienced young gents referred to this as “The Wet Dream Song”.
Ah, so many years ago.

@phendrick Also from the NFL ex-players who died in the last few days were Dallas Cowboy’s Hall of Famer right offensive tackle Rayfield Wright at 76 and Minnesota Vikings defensive tackle Doug Sutherland at 73.

@Ignorant

Damn
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0331906/

–
Classic Gilbert:

What is, in reputation, the dirtiest joke ever told.

(warning, this version of this very dirty joke is totally, completely, utterly, beyond imagination, filthy)
From The Friars Roast (and also, from The Aristocrats) tole at the roast just after 9-11, when no one was laughing at regular jokes.

again: filthy, filthy, far beyond NSFW filthy;
but it’s just audio filthy

About: memorable commentary from people at the roast

---

Aflac

Comedy Central Roast

The Comedy Cental Roast is also NSFW (NSFW audio only)

He was recently on Penn & Teller’s show as well.
RIP.

He was one funny motherfucker.
– Samuel L Jackson

@mike808

Indeed.

/image Gilbert gottfried

@Ignorant @f00l @mike808 A 2017 documentary about him, “Gilbert,” is currently streaming for free on the Pluto TV app & on Peacock. It is well-reviewed (currently has a 95% on the Tomatometer & an 87% audience score) & described as wildly funny, unexpectedly poignant & surprisingly insightful. Looks really good.

@f00l Gilbert Gottfried reading the lyrics to Cardi B’s WAP is also NSFW. And fucking hysterical.

@mike808

: )

@mike808

A true Master Of Comedy reads a piece of embarrassing “masturbatorie”

@ircon96 So much more than Mad Men…

Remember, mediocrity is not a mortal sin

@mossygreen I’m woefully underinformed about musicals, so that wasn’t even on my radar. Thank you for the edification, he’s even more impressive than i realized!

@ircon96 Oh, wow - I hadn’t heard that!

@Kyeh Yeah, it was a shock to read about all the plans she had coming up. It sounds like it’s going to be an even sadder story, her daughters put out a statement that the cause was “mental illness,” which is a real tragedy, especially in light of all the health struggles she’s had over the years.

@ircon96 Yes, terribly sad.

@chienfou
D’oh… That should be Razerguy…

@duodec Remo Williams is one of my guilty pleasures. He was a great actor.

@mike808
Those opening bars to Chariots are so iconic!
When my wife and I used to do student tours in Greece we would always make a DVD of the highlights for the kids. On one trip our son met us for part of the trip while on a break from college and he and one of the other students ran a foot race across the stadium in Olympia. Of course we had to use that track for the background music!

@duodec Great article about him here: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/may/23/colin-cantwell-star-wars-designer-behind-the-x-wing-and-death-star-dies-aged-90

@Ignorant Those eyes …

Nice writeup at https://consequence.net/2022/05/depeche-mode-andy-fletcher-dead/
R.I.P. Andy Fletcher, Depeche Mode Founding Member Dead at 60
Longtime keyboardist also served as the band’s de facto manager and spokesperson

Andy Fletcher of Depeche Mode, photo by Francesco Castald / Getty Images

“We are shocked and filled with overwhelming sadness with the untimely passing of our dear friend, family member, and bandmate Andy ‘Fletch’ Fletcher,” Depeche Mode announced in a statement on Thursday, May 26th.

No cause of death has been released.

The origins of Depeche Mode date back in the late 1970s, when Fletcher and schoolmate Vince Clarke began playing music together. They soon linked up with Marin Gore to form a synth group named Composition of Sound, and then, after recruiting David Gahan to sing vocals, rebranded themselves as Depeche Mode. Clarke left the group following the release of their debut album, 1981’s Speak & Spell, and was replaced by Alan Wilder.

Fletcher was the only Depeche Mode without a songwriting credit, and did not sing in concert. In D.A. Pennebaker’s 1989 documentary about the band, Fletcher famously joked about his musical contributions, saying: “Martin’s the songwriter, Alan’s the good musician, Dave’s the vocalist, and I bum around.”

As a member of Depeche Mode, Fletcher appeared on all 14 of the band’s studio albums, from 1981’s Speak & Spell through 2017’s Spirit. He also participated in every one of the group’s world tours. For his contributions, Fletcher and the rest of Depeche Mode were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2020.

@katbyter
why? Q2 doesn’t end until the end of June…

@chienfou Ugh.

@chienfou @katbyter If you adjust for Daylight Savings Time, it is Q3.

@katbyter
I have reached an age at which so many of the iconic bands I grew up with are losing members right and left…

I’m going to call BS on the very first attribution, as if it was their primary character or achievement of most importance. Why else put it first?

There was nothing in the writeup that mentioned any such “war” participation, nor “hero” status to justify the claim, much less being the very first thing one reads about the man.

I am not at all criticizing his peace efforts, nor his regard as a cartoonist or artist.

I am criticizing the press infatuation and frankly, “yellow journalism” in its baseless glorification of “war”, regardless of the merits that only the “victors” of whatever war is being referred to can have “heroes”.

I doubt they would use the same reverence for slain Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh with an equivalent introduction as a “Palestinian war hero and journalist”. Please someone prove me wrong.

@mike808 That was my bad, if you look again at the very top of the article, they actually listed “editorial cartoonist & political caricaturist” as his primary descriptors.

This piece is excerpted from a much more comprehensive obituary in the NY Times, but since they have a pay wall, i linked to this site. I believe that because this is a cartoonists site, they concentrated more on his career, rather than his complete bio.

I assume the Times was using the qualifier “Israeli” to indicate that he is regarded as a war hero in Israel, which i always consider a subjective status in any case.

I found a more detailed obit that isn’t behind a pay wall that you might find more informative.

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2022-06-10/ty-article/.premium/world-renowned-israeli-cartoonist-ranan-lurie-dies-at-90/00000181-4ca5-d968-afad-5de7b6870000

@ircon96 I just found it a very odd way to start an obit and then provide nothing to support the attribution that was so important, they felt it needed to be mentioned as the very first thing you learn about the man.

TBH, they could have completely omitted that phrase and it wouldn’t have changed anything, other than not asking the WTF is this even here? Lousy editing, IMHO.

@Kyeh A classic gem!

This one describes more of his fun-loving personality, his most prominent characteristic, according to many of his friends & family:

https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/22/sport/tony-siragusa-death-baltimore-ravens-nfl-spt-intl/index.html